Informs JH of arrangement for carriage conveyance to Deptford Yard.
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The Sir John Herschel Collection
The preparation of the print Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds, Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998, viii + 828 pp) which was funded by the National Science Foundation, took ten years. It was accomplished by a team of seventeen professors, visiting scholars, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and staff working at the University of Notre Dame.
The first online version of Calendar was created in 2009 by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy, working at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium, and it is that data that has now been reformatted for incorporation into Ɛpsilon.
Further information about Herschel, his correspondence, and the editorial method is available online here: http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/herschel/?p=intro
No texts of Herschel’s letters are currently available through Ɛpsilon.
Informs JH of arrangement for carriage conveyance to Deptford Yard.
Asks for money pledged for publication of Memoirs of the Analytical Society, which has made no profit. Will be attending testimonial at Cambridge for JW [who has resigned position there].
Mr. Schenck will consider favorably proposition made when JH passed through Berne, provided it is compatible with S's position and suitable for a married man.
Sending three old letters from William Herschel. Still unpacking and organizing her books and papers.
Thanks Herschel family for aid given to care for Hannah Scull, a disabled orphan in the care of the Parrys. Details process of getting legal permission to find a permanent home for the child.
Tells JH to meet a Monsieur Debure [?] while in Brussels; arranges a time.
Thanks JH for the 'kind notices respecting the tabular numbers' in a paper of JH's. Comments on the demands made of William Herschel despite age and health.
Informing him that he (FA) has been elected an Associate of the Astronomical Society of London. Postscript : Henry Kater hopes to hear from FA soon. Thanks him for tables of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
Would like his help on observations of double stars. Comparison of data. Gives details of stars and distances of certain planets from the earth.
Regarding W. T. Brande's attack on Sir Joseph Banks, and its relation to the Council of the Astronomical Society.
Matters relating to his calculating machine.
Please forward enclosed note to Mrs. Roget [wife of P. M. Roget?]. Various items of interest.
Tells CB that JH has seen a calculating machine made by some 'rascally frenchman'.
Will not be able to pay a visit as children have whooping cough. Has been demonstrating his calculating machine. Hopes to see him at the Greenwich visitation.
Has had a letter from the Secretary of the Dijon Academy offering him and CB the title of Non-Resident Associate of the Academy. Is there any chance of seeing him in the near future?
Query regarding the construction of a model of a machine for CB. CB's letter to Humphry Davy about his engines. He will be visiting the Netherlands shortly. P. S. Laplace has sent him details of his recent researches into gases. Hopes the family are well after their recent visit to Devon.
Regarding the construction of the model machine. Things appertaining to the Netherlands. Regarding his new chemical theory.
The account will be inserted in the Morning Chronicle tomorrow.
Will be moving to Worchester shortly. Theory on stained glass. Regarding his recent pamphlet.
Caroline and Dietrich Herschel leave for Rotterdam in two days. CB's 'offer of the heretifical Robes' and 'sacrilegious stain.' Thank [Woolrych Whitmore] for agricultural pamphlet sent to JH and [Richard] Jones. Sent CB's letter to Humphry Davy and others.